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>>11588000The fact that they decided to keep the usual animation error of mistaking his forehead for a visor is both fucking stupid and hilarious. I like it.
>>11588000Nice get.Anyway, I'm really warming up to Chase. The transformation is a touch fiddly but I like him a lot overall, will make a nice addition to my police Autobots (unless I make him into Barricade, which I might).Reminds me, I still need a CHUG G1 Prowl. Did the Siege reissue already come out?
>>11587726>any figures I missed the first time are expensive as all fuck now.>any figures I scrambled to get are all on sale now.My life is pain.
What's the verdict on the new Alpha Trion
>>11588003>CHUG G1 Prowl. Did the Siege reissue already come out?My local collector shop got it in. Thats the only place Ive seen it so far
>>11588000When does he go up
>>11588009Same. Happens all the fuckin time. For me, most recently was Bonecrusher and Retro Gears. This past spring I went on a mad dash for them and spent two weeks hunting every day only for them to both end up shelfwarming. Well, Bonecrusher was never a shelfwarmer, but very readily available. Poor Gears ended up on clearance. I think that was back in late March and I havent hunted for another figure since. Actually I did go hunting for Earthspark Soundwave but I found him on my first stop on my first hunt lol
It took five years to finish the Headmaster Small/Junior DecepticonsUsing the tooling of molds from 2016, nine years ago...On one hand I'm happy they at least finish what they started, but on the other hand, what a Pyrrhic victory to completionests this all was.
Is Swerve in the leaks? I keep seeing people remark that the Minibots will be complete next year after Powerglide but we are still missing Swerve
I'm starting to grow an "ow the edge" team too
>>11588023Needs moar Murderbee.
>>11588021I had to look up Phyrric Victory lol. Thanks anon you taught me something new for the day. I couldnt agree more. They are a particularly egregious example of the way they space out all teams and it is very annoying to me too. I really think it would be better for them to start busting shit out in closer succession. Even Bruticus is nuts. Releasing Vortex before Onslaught even has a prototype.
>>11588023Fucking hell that Red Alert recolor wears the mold so much better.
>$30 for a shitty gimmick fig with zero articulationkek
>>11588020>Spend twice as much for a figure on Ebay because he's nowhere for months. >Week later, online shops all suddenly get him in stock.Devcon and Steeljaw are the most recent offenders
>>11588021Skipped all the 4 packs. I'm hoping TT makes a DCS or whatever box set for it.
>>11588021>>11588025Hasbro butters its plain bread with delicious pain.
>>11587986 Hasbro owns the name so it’s usable.
>>11588022Yes he is. He comes before Powerglide but I believe Tailgate is the last one. He comes either at the same time as Powerglide or right after him.
>>11588043I worry if they will change anything or if it will be like the Monsterbots two pack and it's just the same figures 1 for 1 but with a good mark up anyway. Alternatively the DCS figures are a good 5 years out of the first releases so at the earliest we see them would be 2030 and by that point we might be seeing updated toolings anyway.
>>11588054I was just trying to clarify if anon's OC idea was inspired by the nerf gun
>>11588058Yes
>>11588073I like that idea as a cross over. That the Nerf gun turns into the green Rhino
Got Devastation Sideswipe from Target with their discount today. He's the same mold as Siege so I don't know what I was expecting, but eh, nice to have and earth mode version of him since I skipped Earthrise or whenever his last release was. I saw people talking about headswaps, since the new one is inaccurate, how easy is it to pop the heads off Siege and Devastation Sideswipes?
>>11588002What do you mean?
>Sorry, Rumble, but I hear you're worth a lot these days.
>>11588138> how easy is it to pop the heads off Siege and Devastation Sideswipes?you need to remove the two pins going through the sides of the torso to get to the head
>>11588000Galaxy Shuttle recolor when[spoiler]astro train galaxy shuttle looks like shit in shuttle mode so I dont want that[/spoiler]
>>11588185>Galaxy Shuttle recolor whenI'm tired of Galaxy Shuttle recolors. I want him to get a mold all to himself. Unfortunately, I feel like it would have to be a HasLab, and there's no way in fucking hell I'm giving my money to a fucking HasLab at this point.
>>11588191Maybe you'll get a shot with a Gen Selects repaint of Armada Jetfire In about 8 years
nu-Masterpiece Soundwave preorders are up on western sites175 USD
>>11588158He's seen some shit. Maybe Lovecraft was right, and there are unspeakable things lurking in the dark gulfs of space.
So Mixmaster and Scavenger arrived today, finally I've got all the Constructicons.I'm a bit confused though. Everybody was hyping up Mixmaster as one of the best of the set, and I just don't see why. He's far from terrible (that'd be Bonecrusher and Scavenger) but he doesn't do much to really impress me, he just does his job. I think Scrapper's better than him.
Am I the only one who faces getting in trouble for buying Transformers? Every time I have a figure in the mail I feel like this might be it. This might be the time she kills me.
>>11588247All of them are mid as fuck. Its like trying to pick who is the prettiest at the ugly show
>>11588256I'd call Scavenger the worst. So many mismatched shades of green and a poorly-engineered transformation procedure.
>>11588255none of us have a she, anon.why do you have to be so mean?
>>11588247I don't think anyone was hyping him up because he was the best, but just because he was the last. By then, people had all the other guys. Even Scavenger was out before Mixmaster.
>>11588259I'd rate Bonecrusher lower. His proportions in robot mode are so gimpy.
>>11588255Imagine having a significant other.
>>11588042don't forget road pig. Just recently Walmart threw him on sale for $15 when he's been ~$40 on sites like Amazon and bbts for a while.
>>11588267Yeah the arm bots and neck and neck for worst of the set, but Scavenger irritates me just a bit little bit more. Bonecrusher definitely has issues though.
>>11588275Mixmaster and Scrapper are annoying just because they shouldn't be Voyager priced. there's nothing that indicates they have more engineering. They don't even have waist swivels.
>>11588260>>11588270Welp at least you guys can buy Transformers without soul crushing guilt trips and threats
>>11588291One ratchet joint costs $10 sorry I don't make the rules
>>11587970i like it
>>11588270i'd rather be alone than pick one who doesn't like my hobbiesor god, even worse, what if I don't like hers. I could not marry a woman with a funko pop addiction.
>>11588247>He's far from terrible (that'd be Bonecrusherbonecrusher is the BEST
>>11588247I saw a lone Mixmaster at Target today when I went to see their toy reset. I already completed my Devastator though.
>>11588292If she doesn't love all your transformers too and think they're the greatest thing ever, divorce her.
Does this general care for skybound spoilers or are people still in that "Skybound sucks" era here
>>11588316Usually we don't care, it's always just more grimdark suffering and grimy art.
>>11588316I'm sure that one anon can whip up responses like people care
>>11588311>If she doesn't love all your transformers too and think they're the greatest thing ever, divorce her.If you complain about your wife on TFW you get dozens of people giving this advice unironically lol
>>11588247Opened my Mixmaster just last night, and I'd say he's easily my favorite of the Constructicons so far (still haven't gotten Scavenger though), but not to a point that he'd necessarily be worth hyping up over it. Also, part of my enthusiasm for him might simply be that I find this new mold so much better than the CW version of Mixmaster, so that might make me a bit biased.
>>11588311>>11588329actually if she's stayed this long, you should probably hang on to her like grim death
>>11588297Someone once told me if you need a wife with the same hobbies you might just be wanting a boyfriend
>>11588333Checked and yep Im not letting her go anywhere. Shes the only one who has ever tolerated me for longer than a year.
>>11588334how cute would he be?
>>11588334and that's the reason I don't rag on my 'bisexual' friends, especially the ones that admit they would rather be with women if they could just find a sane one.you don't have to have the SAME hobbies, but the same category of hobbies. I remember this one webcomic guy who was super into godzilla, had a million vinyls and shit.. his wife was way into hello kitty. their wedding cake topper was a lil godzilla with kitty couple. Fuckin beautiful.
I want to have sex with this
>>11588348Cute. I use that same head on one of my custom Megaempresses
>>11588033LMAOMegatron really let himself go."they won't let me be a gun anymore... Optimus always wins... My 2nd in command is always questioning me... what am I even doing anymore?"[sitting on the couch eating a big bowl of energon]
>>11588381That's just Long Haul wearing a bucket on his head.
>>11588381CHOOSE YOUR FIGHTER
>>11588382It's a repaint of TLK Hound gimmick toy with new head & backpack.
>>11588388Wow, that screams desperation.
>>11588023add in soundblaster, shattered glass hotrod and magnificus.
>>11588033even worse is that is just a head swapped AOE hound. You can buy a second hand voyager class figure off ebay for probably cheaper than that
>>11588348Which Megatron body is this?
>>11588385I want to have sex with this
>>11588410TF one megatron.
>>11588413I meant to say which ONE Megatron toy.
>>11588421 Studio Series 114
>>11588319>>11588328greatspoilers:so; Miles Mayhem from M.A.S.K. is working for the U.S. military. The military also dug up mirage and bulkhead from under the sea and under a pyramid in Egypt. Also: wheeljack found dinosaur fossils; so dinobots soonskybound 25 spoilers over general criticism timethe new artist draws most of the autobots/decepticons based off.. fucking yolopark model kits. Not even real transforming figures. >>11588372same>>11588411same
>>11588433He looks amazing. Now I regret buying the blokees ONE Megatron.
>>11588435oh wait. You were serious? Dude anyone here is also in the /co/ threads and if they are not, I doubt they even read over your post and just get back to the toy posts.
>>11588300What did Bumblebee ever do to him?
>Upcoming Transformershttps://pastebin.com/nh6mbtfw (embed) (updated)>Leaks and Rumorshttps://pastebin.com/2QivfSSE>Online Stores for TFshttps://pastebin.com/3raSp3ZY>Where to watch TF shows:https://pastebin.com/sR4Y7xWi>Transformers General Archives:https://archive.palanq.win/toy/search/subject/%2Ftfg%2F%20-%20Transformers%20General/>New thread on page 9 or 10 or at image limit
>forgot one (embed)FUCK, ignore that
>>11588459There he goes, again
>>11588468Hey, actually wasn't me this time. But then again, I only did it for a handful of threads anyway - it was never just one person.
>>11588470No, we're definitely one person, don't lie to our schizo, anon, it would be like kicking a pus-ridden dog
>>11588247The biggest gripe I have with the set is that they are overly simplified and have ugly engineering. Bonecrusher is probably the wonkiest, with his refusal to stay oriented properly in arm mode and that they somehow gave him even more dumpy proportions than the cw version. Everything else I can begrudgingly say is fine, although I do worry that if I leave Scavenger un-combined he might float away with how light he is.
>>11588242He saw idw make him gay.
>>11588488The real biggest gripe is that it once again is Hasbro showing the words "Studio Series" is meaningless since they're just downscaled versions Combiner Wars toys (and Long Haul).
>>11588497as predicted when they started the 86 line Studio Series just became a back fill for whatever they can't fit into the other line(s).
>>11588501And yet you'll have tards in these threads go "no it's SUPER ACCURATE TO THE CARTOON ARRRGH I HATE IT"
Seaspray came while mommy gf was taking a nap! The toy gods smile upon me today. Lets see if the qc gods show me such favor
>>11588504I feel like that logic had to die when they did the core sized Ironhide, Ratchet, etc. Those were clearly hold overs from Kingdom core class figures
>the good -Aesthetically very sharp. Extremely G1 accurate and very slick lookikg-Hes the tallest and heaviest of all the Deluxe Minibots. Very substantial feeling. (Hes damn near too big. I figure this was so he could his boat mode could be a nicer scale with his teammates. As is, he comes off as tanky) >the bad -This figure has a design flaw with his waist. Its off center due to using a sideways mushroom peg like 86 Bee. This causes his waist and hip to collide very badly. -He has a part on the back of one of his feet that falls off if you look at it wrong -Ankle tilt range is very poor>Head articulation is very poor. The balljoint is far more restricted than it needed to be >the ugly -His arms are a bit too long. His proportions could be a bit more heroic if they were just a bit shorter -His fists are slightly offset to the outside of his forearms. It really bugs me they arent centered.
might be a first for this thread- a cyberworld figure reviewArmored Cyber Changers Optimus Primeessentially a core class beast hunters Optimus Prime. This guy is.. fairly decent. No elbows sucks but the shoulder articulation is pretty good for having giant micromaster shoulder pylons on ball joints. Legs are also surprisingly decent. The big draw is the gun backpack and one step transformation.. and these are neat. Gun backpack reminds me of M.A.S.K. and it's also a jetwing prime type thing in robot mode. The one step transformation was very damn tight out of the box but once I loosened it up it works pretty well. Fun, but not worth 15 dollars. Grab a core class DOTM bumblebee and paint it black and you've got the start to a beast hunters core collection.
Just saw these on FacebookHaven't seen such up close pictures yetI "like" it, but something seems off
>>11588589
>>11588589The only thing off is the $43 price tag.
>>11588000Didn't know this existed until yesterday, got it off E-bay!!!FACT!!!
>>11588609lmao you got a bootleg kid
>>11588000Are there any plans for Hasbro to make more Beast Machines toys? I'd love a BM Primal.
>>11588589>something seems offThey flew too close to the Sunbow. The face, shoulders, fists, thighs and knees look like theyre made of bubblegum
>>11588621No they don't.
>>11588616No.
>>11588589The gray parts also look like theyre made of clay. They de-greebled it to zero. The shoulders, thighs, and feet have literally zero greebling. I think thats some of the reasons this looks strange.
>>11588609ah Takara.. Tomy used to do this with Zoids allll the time, I guess they were destined to merge.
>>11588588desperately needs metallic paint. That bland grey looks so fucking bad.Also this unpainted bit is ugly.
>>11588629Not everything needs to be metallic. They're cartoon characters, let them look like their cartoon selves.
>>11588589Yikes
>>11588631They're metallic in the cartoon too, dumbassio.
>>11588629The hinge looks awful too.
>>11588624That is a pity. Are there plans for more Armada toys at least?
>>11588636Yes, Jetfire is next year.
>>11588589>>11588591Im calling it right now, his chest/shoulder/back/wing assembly isnt going to stay tabbed together properly. I can already see it from here
>>11588589How does it scale with 86 megatron? Did the seekers get a height boost like soundwave or is it the same as the ER?
>>11588633No they aren't you retard. He's flat grey in the cartoon. I bet you think Thundercracker, Megatron, Optimus and Grimlock all have silver in the cartoon too despite all 4 of them being colored different just because the toys were chromed or had silver paint.
>>11588616how the hell would they pull that off? their transformations were magical.
>>11588632i'll take honeycombing over a blank hollow anyday
>>11588651>what is animation shorthand
>>11588651Silver paint objectively looks better though. This is why I hate tooners.
>>11588616They said yes but not at the moment. They did point out how people wanted updated vehicons in particular.
>>11588666>Silver paint objectively looks better though.- Quote from man desperate to sell his solid silver Heroes of Cybertron figures that nobody wants
>>11588651>hurrr optimus's grill is totally supposed to be a flat white color guys because my retarded brain takes colors in a retarded cheap 80s cartoon literally
>>11588651Do you draw, friendo? And if so, do you use traditional paper and pencil rather than on a computer, the way these guys did for the cartoon? Let me tell you from experience: it is fucking HARD to depict chrome by hand, and even harder to try to animate something that reflective, even for short frames. Those flat greys, like a lot of other things seen in the cartoon and movie, are a shortcut to save on time, budget and stress on the animators. Given this was all basically a glorified toy commercial, kids at home would have known those were supposed to be metallic because they'd be familiar with how the toys already looked.
>>11588616Is this a good toy if I'm apathetic to Beast Machines Cheetor
>>11588655>a blank hollowI think that is exactly what the photo is pointing out. He has no ribcage
It's so weird that this sort of bitching only ever happens for G1 and not any of the other cartoons ever made.
>>11588682depends on if you like how it looks, the engineering is fairly generic beast mode fare aside from the interesting legs, so it's not like you'll be getting a masterpiece transformationdual swords are always neat though
>>11588527If the minibots are all scaled up, are they really minibots anymore? Did the show ever refer to them as minibots?
>>11588692they were only ever mini vehicles in the packaging, aside from wheelie and bumblebee their size wasn't really used often in the cartoon they did show up in groups occasionally though, like in golden lagoon or five faces of darkness
>>11588686ohhhhhh I see what you mean now. yeah that is fucking awful
>>11588688Are you a 90s kid like me? because I think there's something we just barely missed about the 80sfor 80s kids, this was IT. there was no other quality entertainment, all older animation was just cheap hanna-barbera crud. Shows like Transformers, He-Man, Thundercats, they touched these people as deeply as anime did for us as 00s teenagers.
>>11588690>if you like how it looksI do not>dual swords are always neat thoughThey are
>>11588702That's not answering the question about why whenever the G1 cartoon did something people immediately chimp out that it was wrong to do so.
>>11588713because the more IMPORTANCE you give something, the more eager you are to nitpick the issues with it. Like, if you think there's a problem with corruption in the US government, and you're a flag-wavin' red-blooded fella, you're gonna think that is a MAJOR problem that has to be dealt with severely. Whereas if you hear there's corruption in ... Djibouti or something, you just shrug 'figures.'These shows sit in reverence. Every little error they make is like someone mistranslating a fucking bible verse. you feel like this "really happened" and that it's somehow important to get to the heart of it.
>>11588348femboytron
>>11588692Most of the updated minibots released are still smaller than deluxe carbots. The only ones that are roughly the same height as them are seaspray and warpath.
When does blast off go up for preorder?
>>11588674Hasbro used to have a really nice silver paint for stuff
So while out shopping earlier, local Wal-Mart started stocking leader class again and happened to have both Megatronus and SS86 Megatron, opted for Megatronus but are his joints are super loose.
>>11588748He, Windcharger, Quintus, Sureshot, Quickstrike, and Jalopy are all already up for PO...on HLJ. The question is, are you willing to deal with the tariff prices when they finally ship, or are you willing to wait for them to show up on Pulse and MAYBE get a preorder in before they inevitably sell out?
>>11588781Willing to wait as I had to pay 75 bucks for hlj to ship a miku prize fig Gundam
>>11588627>>11588621the edges are so rounded out, it looks real cheap. I'm getting real sick of slavish toon accuracy
>>11588588>>11588589>>11588591Looks like a fucking bootleg KWAB
>>11588793I'm too old to know what KWAB is and have been here too long to know you're Athena
>>11588793Wait I'm retarded I thought you were Athena because I thought you were shittalking someone for posting a bootleg because I thought it was a shitty bootleg...Oy vey
>>11588589Looks much better than the ER seeker mold design wise but that plastic...yuck. Im not sure if it's from the lack of detail/greebling or if it's just how it is regardless but it almost looks like some kind of cheap R.E.D or authentics figure like the plastic used for 86 soundwave. So close to a perfect chug seeker yet they still somehow dropped the ball. Hopefully skywarp and starscream looks better.
>>11588800those are really soft angles, yeah
>>11588589Has a non-neutral facial expression. Enjoy the 1 in 1,000,000,000,000 figures that actually has some character to it.
>>11588817Theres a reason none of them have facial expressions. Because they look dumb as fuck. I was actually very disappointed to see he has an expression. Now if we could actually have multiple faces / heads it would be a totally different story
Im impressed with Seaspray’s alt mode. He mass shifts from big to even bigger
He feels really big for a deluxe. Every once in a while Hasbro throws us a bone and its always in the form of a minibot
This figure rocks. I modded his head so he can look down and now I love it.
>>11588842that really does add a lot
>>11588849Im telin ya! Its only 1mm and it makes all the difference in so many poses. Otherwise theyre always stuck “looking onward” I call it in my head. Cosmos got it right, a rare figure that has a cavity specifically so his head has clearance to move around. Seaspray and Cosmos’ design language are actually incredibly similar. In fact to the point that Seaspray actually seems like he may be an extremely extensive retool of Cosmos. Their transformations are very similar
>>11588589>>11588591It’s one of the nicest looking SS molds honestly, but it really sucks that you have to partsform the tail fins to the back of the wings. I’m sure they could have made it work without inflating the budget.
>>11588855it's funny, the whole mecha genre has always been designed around things being towering and impressive, yet the vast majority don't have any downward head movement built in.. maybe because they're very much like knight armor, which definitely couldn't look down since that would require a neck armor gap.. real obvious weak spot there..
>>11588867It'd probably help if a majority of TF designs... actually had necks of some sort
>>11588875that's kinda what i meant, yeah
>>11588855very good figure, went into the store to check for onyx prime, no intent to buy seaspray, saw him, he looked good, was even better in hand, pleasantly surprisedalso really like how the design evokes a kind of happy silly transformers beach episode aesthetic, need more cartoony figs like this one
blokees leakees
>>11588889trypticon Unicron and Brawl IN ONE WAVE??!?!?!?are they nuts? i will buy over 90000 of these because i wouldnt mind getting multiple trypticons at all
>>11588000Transformers Energon was the coolest thing ever when I was a kid. I loved the designs of the Energon Stars and the idea of glowing super energy rocks.Energon was basically a stand in for uranium.
>>11588858You don't HAVE too, it's just for Autists who hate the Fins being on the legs
>>11588889>first waifu blokeeLET'S GOOOO
>>11588002it's a highwayman visor
>>11588629Why do you fucking troglodyte retard shit for brains morons always beg for grey parts to be silver, but never ducking complain the rest of the figure isn't done in metallic paints? Do you think the big fucking metal robot is only shiny paint if it's grey?You stupid cunts can't even realize the whole figure should all be metallic paint.
So got some more Blockees today and one of them is a Purple Optimus Prime. What the fuck is his deal? Black Prime I know is Scourge/Nemesis Prime and White Prime is Magnus. What the fuck is Purple Prime's deal for someone who didn't read the IDW comics (as he's listed as IDW version)?
>>11588916Blockees fucked up and mislabeled their Purple Optimus Prime as being IDW Optimus instead of Shattered Glass Optimus Prime. That said, the purple color has been used for two different Optimuses. One is Shattered Glass (IE evil mirror universe Optimus) and the second was for a Neon Genesis Evangelion crossover figure where they painted Optimus purple like Shinji's robot.
I want a new Sideways. Hasbro or blokees, I don't care. I just want him to have better robot proportions and the heads.
>>11588926Same, but his old rider figure is still decent and comparable to recent core class for what it's worth.
>>11588926With any luck we'll get images leaked soon enough. I really want to see how they do with him this time around.>>11588931I just wish they locked together better. That's my biggest hope for an improvement, that the minicon rider doesn't get Darth Maul'd if you look at him funny.
>>11588798It means kek what a bozo
>>11588589>>11588591The engineering and proportions are OK but man, the utter lack of any surface detail makes him look really bad. The other SS86 figures had a decent level of greeble, he's gonna stick out like a sore thumb.
>>11589018>the utter lack of any surface detail makes him look really badHe looks like a fucking RED figure, same with 86 Soundwave.
>>11588926>>11588931>>11589012I'm ready for the new figure to be a Prowl remold, but I'll still be pissed when it is.
>>11588875>>11588867They just don't care who they step on.
>>11588629Why is hasbro obsessed with giving the seekers facial expressions? They never look good, and always look like shit.Regardless, this is not worth $45 or whatever. What a fucking joke.
>>11588912>duckingYou must be 18 or older to post on 4chan, you fucking child.
>>11588247>Everybody was hyping up Mixmaster as one of the best of the set,1. He is more accurate than the CW release2. People were worried he was going to be short packed when amazon sold out and bbts raised their price on him. Walmart is starting to get 2 or 3 each, so that worry has settled down. Hook, etc, will probably be the real 2 to be short packed. He's pretty good. They all are none of them should have been 35 however. And bonecrusher's dozer form is nonsense. Like some 20 year old designing an old 80s dozen from someone else describing it. Or some kind of fantasy cybertron dozen. Shame they got mix master right and stepped back on bonecrusher
I just feel like the prices keep going up but there’s not even an equivalent or even maintained degree of quality. I feel like I have everything I want and I have little reason to keep coming back to the line. If they should release a pair of pants for Armada Optimus or maybe an Animated Megatron or Lugnut in the future I might be interested, but for now I can’t justify the pricing of the modern TF line. It’s unfortunate and I understand that there are many people who are probably still invested in the line, but I just wanted to share my thoughts.
>>11589098> I feel like I have everything I wantThat is the thingA lot of character shouldn't have been done in the previous years so people can get more excited with the 86 versionOr not in the form that is supposed to represent the cartoon version like how Earthrise seekers release pretty much pull the rug under the 86 version I really feel that they should push hard continue into the Japanese continuity and other later releases instead of free flapping between studio series in the classic line
Just got my Target 4 pack.Why do they still put the instruction for all the figures on one sheet?I want to check something, oh let me flip out my fucking roadmap....
Is this worth $50?
>>11588589Well I'm glad I skipped all the Seige/Earthrise seekers now, but fuck me are these really gonna be leader class? Hasbro expects me to shell out $55 per seeker and sell them to me 3 times? Not counting the inevitable coneheads? And rainmakers?This hobby is getting too exploitative for my tastes, fuck me.
Brawl is looking good, very nice head sculpt
>>11589186They're voyagers, anon
>>11589022At this point I'll even take a Groove repaint, and I skipped him years ago because I didn't like the mold.
>>11589192Well that's easier to stomach, then. They look big for voyagers though, maybe I'm just used to them being smaller as of late.
>>11589157Not even half of that, honestly. Dude doesn't even really transform, he just lies down.
So Nemesis and the Star Saber this weekend?
>>11589221he just gets drunk and falls over
>>11589157I love the irony that the original G1 cost around $36-$40 in 1987. And that thing is incredibly dense still holds up almost 40 years now that I have it.
>>11589206looks about the same size as the ER mold
Why did people not like the ER Seeker mold?
>>11589313retarded siege greeble aestheticno waistno wrist swivelsno landing gearlazy rehash of a nearly 20 year old toy
>>11589313It was literally an upscaled Classics Seeker with bare minimum in terms of articulation upgrades. It's fine, especially for the coneheads who are total nobodies anyway, but it's not exactly spectacular.That said the new one's utterly barren surfaces are awful. Will need to take a panel scriber to any I get.
>>11589313Autism. It's perfectly fine. Not great, but fine.
"We are VENIN!"
>>11589413>screaming bug noises
>"Together?">more screaming bug noises
>>11589423>clicking bug noises>louder screaming bug noises for those in the back
>>11589413>>11589419>>11589423>>11589426God he looks cool. Can't wait for mine.
>>11588895Unicron is BAF in >>11588889 pic there is Unicron body A so we don't know how big it will be. >>11588899And second as Nightbird in next wave
>>11589451I got lucky at Target. Finally, all seven Insecticons.
>>11589419you painted the hinge?
>>11589413Please tell me I'm not the only one who sees his face like this.(Is he crying or drooling?)
>>11589313I always hated the proportions. That torso looks like a brick.
>>11588025>Releasing Vortex before Onslaught even has a prototype.And we have to ask are they going to re-release him and bloat the market to make sure you can finish Bruticus? Or are they just going to skip to a team pack pulse exclusive?
>>11589551Onslaught is this summer.
Will we find out who will be the 2026 Titan Class this weekend?
>>11589559? It's AOE Grimlock
>>11589557"This summer" as in 2026? Vortex was this last summer of 2025. It'll be over a year before this is all finished, it's more stretched out than even Menasor which was bad at 9 months. This might clear 14 months from Vortex to finished.
>>11589559what >>11589565 said
>>11589569Summer 2026, yes. He's AoP's Commander for the year.
I finally get to own a razorclaw. I always wanted this guy nut never got around to ebaying him and dbay7jusf got worse over time
>>11589587Now that's a figure to wait on discounts for.
>>11589581Right so going off of Silverbolt we are looking at August as fully rolled out. That's 10 months after Vortex's wave rolled out.
>>11589606Dude, people had Silverbolt by spring.
>Nemesis prime is membership onlyLame.
>>11589632only for the first hour then it becomes public
>>11589639I actually saw that right as I posted. Thank god.
>89 bucksWhat happened to 75? Oh well.
>>11589313It looks like shit, it transforms like shit, it poses like shit, it has inaccuracies that classics DIDNT HAVE because they changed shit for no reasonIt was a ginormous step down after siege gave us a bot that good, I actually felt ripped off
>>11589573I thought that was just for Studio Series not Age of the Primes.
>>11589652It is. AoP isn't getting a Titan in 2026.
>>11589639>>11589641Is it an hour later or November 3rd?
>>11589665The 3rd.
>>11589313Babies angry that it didnt have the waist swivel of the seige toy.Articulation assholes, essentially
>>11589658...or 2027, 2028 and 2029
>>11589672Well, one of them. Scorn. The rest of the Dinos aren't Titan.
>>11589649The Siege Seekers also suck ass.>dude le tetrajet with a brick under it lmao
>>11589676They said they're all gonna be titans
>>11589679I thought the rest were Commander or Leader.
>>11589679There is no way Strafe needs a Titan.
>>11589682
>>11589658Well is AotP getting more than 1 commander in 2026?
>>11589686Well, I save a hundred bucks for a few years then.>>11589687Not that we know of. Yet.
>>11589687JTPrime says 2026 AOTP will get two commanders, Onslaught (which we already know) and Armada Jetfire.
>>11589693I stand corrected. Sweet.
>>11589693Will be cool to get two commanders that combine with things I already own.
>>11589693Any word on Overload?
>>11589700Go dig up a vintage one
>>11589685but he's getting one anyway.titan priced that is. size may vary
>>11589693Still praying for one last Armada Optimus rerun when Jetfire drops. I've got my old Overload still, but I do not want to pay a premium markup for Optimus if I don't have to
>>11589296Oh wow his cockpit chest is fuckhuge. And yet, his real nosecone still sticks up from behind his head
Quickstrike looks neat. But I still have my original one.
I guess this confirms he only holds one tape. Again.
>>11589189i'm so ultra excited for Combaticons.i love how there are tons of combaticons coming out>top tier studio>very cute tiny vehicles from blokees>tiny robo-robos from blokeesCOMBATICON BROS WE EATING GOOD!!!
>>11589775I swear this is the last Soundwave I'm going to shell money out for, ever. Fuck you Hasbro.
>>11589313People hate it because it was the classics seeker from 06 just scaled up and the classics seeker wasn't that good of a design to start with. Its nice to see an all new F-15 seeker design at CHUG size after 20 years. Please keep old good new bad posting though. It's funny.
>>11589816Did anybody collect those big-ass CW seekers? I never held one, myself. Wasn't that mold a sort of upscale of the T30 legends one? I had that little Starscream.
>>11589817The CW mold was am awkward Jetfire retool.
>Nemesis is 89>After saying it would be 75They can fuck right off, specially after o r of the minicons was discovered with an engineering issue that breaks his chest.
>>11589610A few people but not the majority, anon said " fully rolled out." That said: why the hell defend this garbage? You like being teased along for months to years to get FIVE figures with a bunch of OCs and other shit between them? I don't like the new combiners but holy shit this is inexcusable bullshit to just try and bait out sales.
>>11589834Issue?
>>11589221maybe that's why it says "changes" instead of "Converts" this time
>>11589413what the fuck is that weapon>>11589543kek
>>11589840This reads like you've never once played the third-party game
>>11589587huh, he looks distinct enough that i'll be okay buying him even though I already have the original I guess.. but not until the upgrade kit is rereleased. Which will presumably not happen until silverbolt also gets a recolor.
>>11589850That's not as great a defense as you think, you might as well say "Leave the billion dollar company alone"
>>11589850>>11589857or "small independent, company please understand"
>>11589857Is Hasbro even still worth a billion?If they are it must be built entirely on the back of MtG
>>11589846They used the hoops method to secure the chest on one of the minicons, but the hoops plastic is too thin. So either it was stresses from the moment it was attached to the chest, or it broke due to tightness. We'll learn more as people get their copies.
>>11589157Its 30 on amazon, cool toy if you like the play pattern of cyberverse
>>11589798I'm not even bothering this time. Those cassettes look like ass.
>>11589798No one is forcing you to buy another Soundwave, anon. You are addicted.
When are domestic places putting the next wave on pre-order? I just want Quickstrike.
>>11589828Oh right, I never got to handle that mold at all so it's unfamiliar to me.
>>11589910I CAN STOP WHENEVER I WANT, SHUT UP
>>11589919Two months from now in two different waves
Mixmaster finally showed up. For the first time ever, I finally have the full Constructicon team - and, by extension, a complete Devastator.Not going to have time to take pictures, fiddle with him, or even open him until after work, though - I'm literally walking out the door right now. Can't wait to combine everyone when I get back, though.
>>11589857>>11589870Not so much a defense of Hasbro as a disrespect towards anonThe combaticons are coming out approximately one per wave. That's nothing to whine about
Finally got the DNA Megatron/Tidal Wave kit. I'll be heading to work soon, so I won't be able to install it until later, but I'm pretty stoked since I've been waiting months to install it on the Tidal Wave I bought for 100 bucks.
>>11588609
>>11590001be careful, G1 Megatron might try and steal this picture as coal can be used as an energy source
>>11589686How is this shit even possible
>>11589678Yeah the alt mode isn't great but the robot mode was fantastic and still among the best of modern TF, ER seeker on the other hand fucking sucks in both modes. Siege has misguided effort, ER doesn't even fucking have effort at all
Does your Scavenger have the hinge-doesn't-fit issue? I was expecting to have to fix mine, but it fits just fine.Not my pic, just grabbed it for expediency sake.
>>11589959Back when Combiner wars happen they dropped everything in one wave or two. This isn't even complaining so much as outing bad practices. Like anon said why even defend this bullshit when they use to be better than that?
>>11590068Enshittifying and shrinkflating the toys like they have been are bad practicesNot getting characters in the order you want isn't
>>11590085in fact, spreading out toy releases actually has benefits, as it means you won't be scrambling to pay 600 dollars for all the new releases before they sell out and then go on the aftermarket and get scalped.
>>11590085>Not getting characters in the order you want isn't I think it's more of what happens if the team isn't finished or worse quality control issues take root or further still what >>11588025 was getting at where the others didn't even have prototypes yet. They can't even get a backer Haslab right with just two robots combining, it's understandable to see issues that could happen with this or even the challenge of uncertain of you want the whole team or not based on what? Concept art? What if Onslaught is garbage? What if he sours and makes the whole combiner gimmick bad? Or breaks? Why would you assume they get anything right when they have a bad track record of the last five years getting a lot wrong? So that puts you in this stupid lose/lose risk of you either buy and sit on them hopping the last one or two are not lemons or wait until the last one rolls out and then have problems finding the figures from last year to finish the team. >>11590091It just cuts in the other direction and you get what's already happening with Devastator, Superion, and Menasor where one figure is very difficult to find due to the spreading out of several months which have wildly different shipping patterns. So really you just get the "go on the aftermarket and get scalped" anyway.
>>11589943i am quite lucky that the things I like almost never get many releases or reimaginings.i just wish I could get paid to review. I'd do a good job of it! I'm very thorough and I have a good voice.. but I don't feel like doing video editing, and youtube has made it very clear that your suffering is their #1 priority.
>>11590121>but I don't feel like doing video editing,Then you'll fit right in with Balt "no two-takes" matrix
>>11590122i mean in my defense, I do tend to do everything in one take. but that's when I have a scriptalso I don't want my face in the videos.. could I make a vtuber avatar?
>>11590015Because at the rate Hasbro's going Titans will soon be leader sized and cost $300
>>11590045Nope, mines has perfect QC. I was wondering why everyone was complaining about scavenger.
>>11590125just.. don't have anything reflective on the backdrop you record on, and don't do thew adams-style 'hold toy to camera', look more at that toy guy or emgo's videos
>>11590091> it means you won't be scrambling to pay 600 dollars for all the new releasesAnon if they released the four limbs with the commander in one wave, it should cost under $200. In fact if they released the Combaticons in one wave this year you'd save about $30 due to the price hike that we know is happening for next year making the four team members cost more. We don't even need the aftermarket now, Hasbro and it's affiliates just starts the scalping ever quarter now.
>>11590150I remember wishing these companies would just put out more merch, since they're leaving money on the table and handing it over to scalpersi think they learned the wrong lesson...
>>11590150If the prediction of another 12% increase on top of what we have seen is still coming as the market is projecting it'll be more than $30. Commander would be near $120ish and Deluxe would be $32ish >>11590155Yeah this all feels very monkey paw doesn't it? Look at Studio Series Soundwave, that's basically what people were asking for all the way back in 2018 when Siege and Earthrise were announced/released and it took them over 7 years to make this voyager scaled bot in a very soft blue that's likely going to show stress marks easy with three cassettes(two just being the same mold) and getting it for $55 is seen as a discount price. If this is what 2026 looks like for Transformers I'm terrified to see 2027.
I got a copy of Retro Brawn and immediately returned it due to multiple qc issues visible right in the package. Had a gouge of plastic missing from his forehead, improperly painted faceplate, huge paint chip on his chest and finally his shoulders were visibly splayed out from his chest. Between here and tfw I think Ive seen all of these exact problems mentioned and this copy had them all. They are packaging him terribly. The tie downs are not only bending his shoulder joints but popping his chest open to boot. His clamshell is also not deep enough and he was slammed up against the bubble. All bad. As a last note, the package had a fine dust on it from the factory. Ive seen that ‘factory dust’ many times and I have correlated it to poor qc releases. That dust means the B team built that shit. This is why I vastly prefer finding stuff in store rather than buying online. Unfortunately they didnt have any on the shelf and I didnt think to ask them to grab more from the back. They wouldve said no anyway, they were very busy. All around a crappy experience. Sorry for the long winded rant. On the bright side my Seaspray is very clean in the QC department and dosent have any of the problems people are encountering Tdlr another qc headache. Many such cases
>>11590166The cassettes are also a great example of how spreading out toy releases of teams/crews just hurts the collectors, in Siege it was Ratbat and red Rumble, that was hard to find and if you wanted blue Frenzy you needed to by a 4 pack with two bots not even related to Soundwave. The Earthrise molds were even worse where if you wanted earth mode Laserbeak and Buzzsaw together you had to buy Soundwave twice, one as a $40 Walmart exclusive and the other a Leader class with another Ravage and Rumble that came out 5 years later. This isn't even looking over the exclusive Target Preceptor pack and the mess of Studio Series with $100 Rumble. It all just feels very fucked up when a decade ago they didn't have these problems. >Release Voyager FoC Soudwave with one disc bot>release a case of two packs that have the remaining 4 team members >Release the Soundblaster deco at retail with the one that wasn't in the game (Buzzsaw)>2 Quarters later do the same with Blaster and his crew Who in their department is making these choices? Somewhere they knew what they were doing and one day just lost the thread. Just what the fuck happen around 2018?
>>11590195Holy shit you got pictures?
>>11590196I never understood why didn't they just release a Soundblaster in the earthrise remold that came with buzzsaw and frenzy and Soundwave with laserbeak and rumble.
>>11590136Woah woah, they dropped the price for Star Convoy... they're going to be voyager sized and $150.
>>11589956I wish they had more 5mm ports on them. I would like to redo the attack modes the original toys had with the new parts, but there's just not enough spots to attach more than one gun.
>>11590045Mine is fine, but as per the wiki:>There are many reports of the figure have difficulty slotting the cockpit into the intended gap. If this is the case, it is best to sand down the round edges holding the cockpit part to create enough clearance to slot it in.
>>11590150>Vortex$26>Brawl$43>Blast-off$28>Swindle$43>Onslaught$90That's fuckin' rough...
>>11590214>Vortex>$26He started at $24, this hobby is just going full on clown world
>>11590210Scrapper not being able to have the chest plate on the back of his alt is a crime.
>>11590196They still know what they're doing. They're purposely pulling stunts so we have to buy the same figure over and over to get the other shit we want.Like all the companies, they've become so money grubby that they don't care how it looks.
>>11590199I did actually snap a pic of it..from exactly the wrong angle to show anything properly. I promise it looked much worse in person >blue Sloppy paint application >purpleThe whole side of his mohawk is scraped, into the plastic >pink Bottom of his faceplate has no paint and its all jagged bare plastic >yellowBent shoulder. In fact in my pic it actually looked warped or something >red Paint chipped completely off the whole corner of his chest to bare plastic >green Its hard to tell but he is actually touching the bubble here
>>11590202I waited and waited, and finally broke down and Ebayed the Seige Soundblaster so I could have something to go with Twincast
>>11590218do you mean the wings for the flying mode, because he can. There's tabs on the wings that line up with the slots on the back
>>11590221Bonus round: there is also scratches all over his faceplate and as a final fuck you, every pin still has all the excess plastic in it. Thats when you know the assembly crew fucked off
>>11590216I think youre joking but the latest deluxes are $30 already. Thats why I used the stupid walmart app to save $5 faggoty dollars and ended up empty handed with a pending refund. Extra fun fact of the day: Effective August 31 Walmart has stopped giving cash refund for debit card purchases
>>11590045No, all of my Constructicons are perfect in terms of QC - which is funny, because aside from them, everything else I've gotten has been pretty shitty.
>>11590166>If the prediction of another 12% increase on top of what we have seenAre you talking about another price increase beyond the one sending Voyagers to $42?I fucking called this shit like 2 years ago and again last year. Once they went over $20 for a deluxe it was over. What a shitshow
>>11590210I also wish that trailer did more. It's just a box on wheels. Some fold out legs or something so it could become a small battle platform would've been nice.
>>11590224wtf country has a little man on the 'don't walk' light
howdy howdy
>>11590309i like how it even has the mecha grille on it.. well, either that or a lucky cat coin.
>>11590309
>>11590312it's wildwheel's
>>11590323wow! removable hats are not common
>>11590323cyberverse had a lot of really good stuff huhlike not just 'decent and passable' like some of the earthspark stuff and I guess cyberworld core class replacement cyber changersactually good toys and ideas
>>11590349i guess individually jointed scorpion legs was asking a lot.. it's fine.
>>11590362Ball joints are too expensive for deluxe class, please understand. We've never had deluxe arachnids have balljoints for their legs, and we've certainly never had it the past three times, so just be thankful for what you get.Also they might have thought that it would be too cumbersome for his grabbing hand to have that many ball joints (it would have been fine)
>>11590366I was actually thinking individual hinges would be ideal. Like one rod runs through all four legs on a given side, but the legs have individual rotations on said rod.
>>11590373Hinges need pins and metal is expensive, plastic hinges might be cool but it might get worn outI get what you sort of mean though and that would have been a fun bit though, he'd be able to hold smaller shit and have actual fingers instead of a clamp. But he's just a modernized upscale of the Beast Wars figure instead, huh.
>>11588589>>11588591I might get this mold if he's repainted as that target exclusive red guy, Skittles TC, or some other wacky G2 color pallet.
>>11590219This is why I've almost completely stopped collecting. If they're just jerking me around then this isn't fun anymore.
>>11590380what about sunstorm
>>11590340after the first year, yeah
>>11590392most transformers toylines don't have the heaviest hitters in year 1. just passable and good stuff, usually. Great and exceptional toys come in the second and third years
>>11590379yeah like, it already has a single hinge there, so it wouldn't be that much more expensive to do.either way i'm just glad he has all the paint apps. i think.
>>11590396that's certainly how Beast Wars went wait, I looked it up. That's not so. But it FELT like the first wave was all the kinda rough ones before they super nailed it the second year.
It's backhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIV2pqySpBI
>>11590401Besides ultra Megs and Optimus, did beast wars really have that many standouts in year one? I mean, obviously at the time they were revolutionary for people who skipped g2 and didn't see all the articulation upgrades, but.. looking back, they're kinda generic. Basics were all kinda shellformers, deluxes were decent but half of them were retools/repaints of other deluxes. Scorponok was cool though.
https://www.e bay.com/itm/226977900679
>>11590414Silverbolt, tigerhawk, quickstrike and inferno were great
>>11590402hell yeah, late night schizophrenia
>>11590420So were you
>>11590420did you miss the point of the postI'm saying that beast wars year 1 had decent toys while year 2 and 3 had the standouts
>>11590426Oh in any case i think rhinox holds up
>>11590426that wasn't me, fyiuhh yeah I looked it up and I was really surprised at which toys were wave 1, because I had the impression I'd MISSED wave 1 entirely. I could never find rhinox, cheetor, rattrap..But yeah, Razorbeast, Terrorsaur, Dinobot, Polar Claw, Scorponok.. and that's just wave 1 OF 1996. 1996 apparently had 3 waves.
>>11590427>>11590428They hold up, sure, but compared to g2's offerings, I think the basics and deluxes were just about average. Amazing at the time to returning g1 fans and kids used to the limited articulation of TMNT and power rangers, though
>>11590431Pretty sure all G2 had mostly G1 redecos in its first year
>>11590433(besides tank Megatron)Yeah, I was thinking about the laser rods and the heroes and laser Optimus and the cyber jets since those would have been the 'standard' of the time.
sold my volcanicus b/c I didn't really care for it and love that the guy I sold it to is having the best time of his life with the thing lol
>>11590427Really? Kinda hard to think of a more disappointing old beast wars toy that isn't named Snarl.
>>11590349is that grimlock painted? why didnt they do the weathering thing like the original SS did
My Sandstorm/Slugslinger pack arrived. Now I can put Sandstorm on my shelf next Rodimus Prime, so Roddy can just constantly tell Sandstorm how much the planet he comes from sucks.
>>11590487sometimes I think that Rodimus deserved more time as leader, nobody could live up to Optimus prime and he was trying his bestthen I remember he was a dick like 75% of the time which is really funny
